Eating Fish

The Muslim chaps in Pakistan seem to have found something new to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon; protesting against the existance of Fitna. They seem to be enjoying this sort of thing, because it is definately not the first time they’ve done this. Perhaps it’ll be a national pasttime soon. I actually almost forgot about the film, until these yahoo’s decided to protest against it… again.

Anyway, they cried out they would do anything in their power to protect the sanctity of the prophet. Muhammed must be deeply ashamed up there in heaven for several reasons;

• That a sorry bunch of brainless baboons are the ones ‘defending’ his honour (when he was alive he at least handled his own business).
• That these idiots are protesting a film that didn’t even mention the prophet (the original version showed the Danish cartoon, but that was removed).
• There is a rumour Muhammed was playing poker with Jesus, Moses and Abraham last week and was caught cheating.

Seriously; who are these lamebrain idiots to speak on behalf of the prophet? Is he unable to handle this himself? He can ask God to strike Wilders with a few bolts of lightning, can’t he? Although if you look at pictures of the guy, I suspect that has already happened, judging by his hair; that has already happened.

I think these guys are actually insulting the prophet, by claiming he needs them to protect his honour. Shame on the Pakistani to insult the prophet Muhammed. Guess they’re just not very good Muslims, are they?

There was a poll yesterday and they asked over 40,000 people to grade our government; the forth with Harry Potter Jan-Peter Balkenende at the helm. And boy is this a sinking ship or what. Over 75% of these 40,000 people gave them a grade below 4 (on a scale of 10). So guys, plan a new election round, pack up and GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT!

I’m getting a bit fed up with the entire pointless bullshit gay debate in the US (and a few other countries as well). People are calling for or against gay rights, gay marriage, gay adoption, gay whatever. Cut it out. I mean it. NOW! Let me break this down.

Any gay person (male or female) demanding gay rights is a complete and utter IDIOT. There, I’ve said it. Why are these people idiots? Because they are demanding something they already have. Almost every country in the world has gay rights. You know what gay rights are? Gay rights are that you are a second rate citizen, you can’t do the stuff most heterosexuals are allowed to do and that you’ll just have to accept it because only you and a few liberal heterosexuals are in favor of change. So, if you are going to demand anything, demand EQUAL RIGHTS, you moron.

Another gay thing that gets me all worked up is the utter stupidity of gay marriage, something most of the Christian shitkickers (take a seat, I’ll get to you later) are opposing right now. Any gay wanting gay marriage is in IDIOT. Why? Because the term ‘gay marriage’ implies that two gay people getting married is or should be different from two heterosexuals getting married. In any case, it is going to take years - if not decades - before you get your wish and if you do, they’ll be serving you a cheap knockoff of a heterosexual marriage with a lot less rights. And if you dare to say at that point in time “Hey, this is not what we wanted!”, they’ll say “You wanted gay marriage, here it is. Stop complaining, you fag!”

What you want is them to stop restricting marriage! If marriage is legally only possible between a man and a woman, technically it is restricted. This restriction needs to go; nothing more, nothing less. Any two consenting adults (who are not closely related) should be able to get married and enjoy the same rights as any other two (random) consenting married adults. It is that frelling easy. Don’t demand gay marriage, demand UNRESTRICTED MARRIAGE (between two consenting adults).

Last thing I really can’t stand about the whole gay issue is going to piss off a few people, but I’m going to vent it anyway… I can’t stand people who think being gay is a lifestyle. If you Google for “Gay Pride” images, most of the stuff you see is half-dressed men and women, dressing up, showing the world how fucking great they think they are. It is these people who are hurting the ‘gay cause’ more then all the Bible-quoting asswhips put together. Why? Because you are showing the world that you are very different.

Don’t get me wrong. I greatly value individuality and I try to teach my children to be whoever they want to be and not try to be what other people want them to be. But if you parade yourself in public in silly clothes (and only very few of them) you are telling everyone “This is what being gay is all about!” And this way, you fortify almost every single prejudice people hold concerning gay individuals. You are giving people who are against EVER giving you EQUAL RIGHTS enough ammo to last them a lifetime of arguing gay people are filthy, sexually perverted, morally repulsive and downright disgusting.

Being gay is not a choice or a lifestyle (one generally chooses a certain lifestyle); it is normal, natural and there is nothing wrong with being gay. Show the whole world the truth; that gay people are completely normal people, like everyone else, except for the fact that they happen to be attracted to people of the same gender, in stead of the opposite gender. What I would like to see - and I firmly believe this will have a more positive impact to the ’cause’ then all the Gay Pride gatherings you have right now, is a demonstration (of thousands and thousands) of completely ‘normal’ looking people, demanding EQUAL RIGHTS. Picture a demonstration against war, poverty, or an issue like that, keep the people you see in mind and swap the signs saying “Stop the war!” with “Equal Rights for Gay’s”. That is what it should look like. If you would do that, it would be harder for people who are against you, to point at you and say you are immoral and perverted. Because now you look like the man or woman from across the street in stead of a half naked idiot with “gay = cool” written across the bare chest. You’ll never win over the hardcore gay-hating Christians, but if you win over the rest of those against you, you’re only small step away from getting what you should have; equal rights.

Now for the Christians reading this… GROW UP! What two people of consenting age are doing in the privacy of their own bedroom is none of your business. Gayness is not about sex. It’s not about men sticking his Johnson into another man’s dung-hole. It’s not about women licking each other’s happy place. It is about all the same things any relationship is about, with the difference that it is between two people that are the same gender.

And there is nothing, absolutely nothing sacred about marriage. Unions between two people were not invented along with the Bible and took they place in many (not based on the Abrahamic religions) cultures - and still do. The only sacred thing about it is the pledge between two people - any two people - who proclaim their love to one another and vow (to try) to live together the rest of their natural life, and God has nothing to do with that. And if marriage is that sacred, why do so many (Christan) couples in the Western world get divorced? If marriage is so sacred, why do so many (Christans) cheat on their partner during their marriage?

Being gay is not a disease. It is not a psychological problem. Not every gay person has AIDS (actually, more heterosexuals than gay people have AIDS). Not every gay person is a child molester (in fact, unless I am mistaken, most child molesters are straight). Curing gay people from being gay is bogus. Any gay person claiming to be cured has simply been chased back into the closet by Christians who are - as I can only imagine that to be the root of their problem with gay people - insecure about their own sexuality and will most likely be miserable for the rest of his/her fake-heterosexual life. And as I stated earlier; BEING GAY IS NOT ABOUT SEX… IT IS ABOUT LOVE.

There you have it; gay people should cut the ‘extravagant lifestyle’ bullshit, religious nutjobs should leave them alone and give them equal rights in all aspects of life.

Now shut up and do what I tell you. It’s for the best. Seriously.

The AIVD, the dutch intelligence agency responsible for identifying and neutralizing threads to our national security released its annual report this week. It had a few key points.

Radical Muslim networks recruit less and less in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and more and more in Western countries. The thread in the Netherlands has increased as well. There are several international organized networks active in the Netherlands as well, which they could confirm when they arrested a Pakistani in March who was involved in the preparation of a terrorist strike somewhere in Western Europe.

What they do is infiltrate and take over mosque’s. Here they pick out (young) men who are easy prey and preach the whole jihad and 72 virgins nonsense to them so they gain cannon-fodder and ‘martyrs’. There are several mosque’s known in the Netherlands for hateful preaching. Of course, we are outraged, they claim it never happened, everyone drinks a cup of thee and we forget it ever happened (and then we do it all over again, and again, and again).

They also stated that several countries, including (but not exclusively) Russia and China had been spying on the Netherlands. Spies that were caught where persuaded to return home.

We kindly ask spies to leave, but if you are a gay Muslim seeking asylum, we simply try to kick you back home. Go Netherlands!

They also noticed an increase in attacks on Dutch critical computer networks and infrastructure from abroad, some specifically to get their hands on private records.

The private records referred to is the data on everyone in the country like social security data, taxes, address and basically everything else the government has stored on its citizens. Laws within the Netherlands are pretty strict to avoid anyone (including Big Brother itself) from using the data for their own ends. Not the stuff you want a foreign power to get their hands on.

Denying stuff is totally hip. I mean, there are people denying evolution - saying some form of intelligence (preferably God) created the Earth. There are global warming-denialists (yes, I think Al Gore is an ass too, but that doesn’t mean there is no global warming). There are 911-deniers, which don’t deny it happened, but claim it was an inside job. But one I hadn’t expected, I read about today on the Evolved and Rational blog: HIV/AIDS deniers. Denialism is totally hip, and I want to be one.

I do have a few problems though. I know AIDS is real, so I can’t deny that. I feel the US government has not addressed all questions surrounding 9/11, but that doesn’t mean it was an inside job. So I can’t deny that either. I firmly believe in the theory of evolution, so I definitely can’t deny that. Considering the fact that I’ve not pushed my kids through the snow on a sled, even though I used to play in the snow most winters in my youth, and that I’m typing this in april in the Netherlands in a t-shirt makes it hard to deny global warming either. No, I need something cool to denial. Something that enables me to go crazy on theories and false assumptions with no scientific foundation whatsoever. I know; I’m going to be the first internet-denialist!

You see, I deny the existence of the internet. There is no such thing. All the information rests in special chips on the motherboard and operating systems are rigged to fetch this information. Some of it is created dynamically, based on user interaction. The people I meet online are artificially created by the internet chips. In online games - which aren’t really online because there is no internet - the people I meet are NPC’s just like all the ‘normal’ NPC’s. I also did not meet my wife and my girlfriend on the net, it’s all a conspiracy created by the state(s) to slowly turn the world into a police state without us knowing about it. I’ve suspected this for a long time, but a friend of mine works for a computer company and he confirmed my beliefs……

No, I’m not good at this. I can’t believe this crap any more then I can believe most of the other ‘denialism’ crap. There is one form of denialism I can agree with though… I’ll always be a God-denier.

The political correctness in the Netherlands (and Europe) is so staggeringly out of control, it’s getting more and more ridiculous. Observe the following photograph:

What’s obvious to most Dutch people is… there is no alcohol of any sorts on the table, but there is a Muslim fanatic. And those two facts are intertwined. Let me explain.

In programs like the one as portrait in the picture (Paul & Witteman) in the Netherlands, it is not uncommon for any of the guests to drink wine or beer. Not large amounts, but often people have a single glass of white or red wine, beer, water or soda in front of them. But as soon as a fundamentalist Muslim sits becomes part of the discussion, light alcoholic beverages are not allowed because it might offend the before mentioned shitkicker.

Let me quote the people who came up with this political correct bullshit: “het verwijderen van alcoholische dranken hoort bij het respect dat moslims toekomt in de multiculturele samenleving.”. Translation: “the removal of alcoholic beverages is part of the respect Muslims should receive in a multicultural society”.

WHAT? What are you going to do? Close a pub when an imam walks by? Ban liquor stores from shopping malls so shopping Muslims are not offended by the presence of booze? What’s next? Am i supposed to cut off my daughter’s clitoris because when he becomes sexually active (hopefully not for the next 30 years or so) she might offend some Muslim bigot by having the ability to have an orgasm? Stone my son if it turns out he is more attracted to men then women? Take a piss on the ashes of my late wife because she practiced modern witchcraft?

Can we in Europe please stop with the political correct bullshit? We never forced anyone to move to the Netherlands. They came here in search of a better life. That does not mean we have to bend over backwards, throw away our customs and morals because they are incompatible with the babbling of an illiterate desert nomad? If you don’t like the way we do things in Europe; get the fuck out. Go live in what ever oppressed hellhole you come from and leave us alone. Or stay here and adapt. We in Europe have showed plenty of positive attitude towards people from countries outside of Europe. Sure, we’ve had (and have) some racist assholes, who judge only on the color of skin and generalize like there is no tomorrow. But they were always a minority and the rest of us hated their guts.

And I know most Muslims in Europe are not radical, but moderate and only want to live in peaceful harmony with the rest of us. But this small group (with a big mouth) is destroying the image of the European Muslim community, which seems to do nothing about it. Get rid of these assholes. Tell us you have no problem with others drinking, as long as they respect the fact that you choose not to drink any. Learn to tolerate gay men and women, and in time, learn to respect them as most of us have. Show us that Islam truly can be a religion of peace. Integrate into our society without loosing all of the values and culture you brought with you. Keep those that fit or that we can easily accept without having to hand over our own cultural identity on a silver platter.

Only then, and only then will we truly have a multicultural society, and one we can all live in the way we all want to.

I just discovered the coolest thing. Christians knew it far longer then we ‘non-believers’ did, and it is soooo cool. Did you know that if you deny a scientific principle is correct, it’s effects no longer apply to you? You didn’t? Yeah, neither did I, but it really works!

You see, most Christians have a problem that evolution says they are ‘monkeys’ or ‘animals’, and they don’t like that idea. It seems there is something immoral about animals or something. Anyway, what they do is deny evolution is true and they are suddenly no longer part of a long evolutionary process that had apes in there somewhere along the way (and a long time ago), and they are humans created by God. Yes, I know, I can’t tell the difference either, but they think it’s true. So, as one (amateur) with a somewhat scientific mind, I decided to experiment.

I walked into the backyard, threw my hands in the air and cried out to the clouds above me: “I am an evolutionist no longer! I now do not believe in evolution anymore!” And all of a sudden, my ancient ancestors were no longer very small mammals living in the age of the dinosaur, but were Adam and Eve. Of course, a single experiment is not sufficient to prove my extraordinary Theory of Scientific Denial, so I needed to take it further. At this time I only had a scientific theory that states science doesn’t exist (in religion these sort of logics are perfectly acceptable) and one successful experiment.

I went back inside, and thought up my next experiment while I drank a cup of coffee. Besides being an evolutionist (but not anymore) I was also a gravitationist; I believed in the theory of gravity. I put down my coffee, denounced the existence of gravity and it seized to have any effect on me. In stead, God watched over me and made sure I did not start to float about the place, and kept my feet firmly on the ground. A second successful experiment! Amazing!

Now that I was on a role, the third experiment came to me almost instantly; I quickly stated that I no longer believed in electro-magnetism, and the electricity running through my house no longer came from a power plant using scientific principles, but from God, who magically made all the lights in the house work.

“Eureka!” I cried out. “I have proven through the use of basic scientific experimentation that science does not exist! The Theory of Scientific Denial is true!” But then, all of a sudden everything went back to normal. Because I had used science to prove my theory and I had succeeded, I also proved that scientific principles do exist, therefore disproving my theory. God was no more.

So I huddled into a corner and cried.

I just read on PZ Myers blog that the highly intelligently designed people that are responsible for that wonderful movie Zombie Strippers Expelled, have been neglecting copyright left and right. Seems they first lied to several of those they interviewed (PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins to name just two) on what the movie was about, then it was discovered they (illegally) copied cell animation done by Harvard/XVIVO (and then threatened to sue them when XVIVO brought it up). Now it turns out they also used music in the film without permission. Well, if I ever want to make a movie, I’ll go and hire these guys to do it! What professionalism!

Another ‘movie maker’ that has run into serious trouble is our good friend Geert Wilders (yes, Mr. Funny Hair). Immediately after release, two big problems with his shit-flick Fitna were brought up. The first was the fact that when a photograph of Mohammed Bouyeri was shown, it was actually a picture of rapper Salah Edin, who made an album cover where he was made to look like the police photograph of Bouyeri. Edin was not amused. Wilders also used the famous turban bomb cartoon drawn by Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard without permission. Westergaard was also not amused and this became the second slip-up of a 15 minute film. But no, three times is a charm , so Wilders also used parts of an interview of Theo van Gogh by Robbie Mutz without permission. Copyright seems to mean nothing to this man. But Robbie, clever as he is, asked for an exclusive interview (Wilders rarely gives interviews at the moment) as compensation, and got just that.

If you make a film, and you use material that you did not make yourself, the first thing any good film maker should realize is that you require permission from whoever did make that material. It’s basic knowledge and I can image one of the things any documentary maker learns when being schooled for this. Wilders, not a film maker and he really should stick to politics, holds several law degrees and is intelligent enough to know better. I suspect he thought he would get away with it, because he was convinced the people he stole material from would be sympathetic to his message. He was wrong (but that is something he is more often, so he should have gotten used to that by now) and looked like an ass. And rightfully so, in my opinion.

Any filmmaker who does not take copyright into account is an amateur and a hack. Wilders is, and now it seems, so are the people who made Expelled.

… and what fun did they have! Let’s look at the sheer bullshit flying over the White House lawn today (I feel sorry for the gardner already):

Bush stated [to the Pope] that Americans “need your message that all of life is sacred.”

And what message is that, George? That condoms are sinfull and AIDS-infested villages in Africa are told this so the few people who haven’t contracted it will soon enough? Well, the Vatican is making sure that Africa will be almost deserted in a few decades; most Africans are shit-poor and lack the funds to buy neat life-prolonging AIDS medication. I must admit that Africa still has a lot of untouched riches on it’s soil and we’re not allowing them to touch them (enviromental issues; we are the only ones allowed to fuck up the planet), so I’m sure we can start the pillaging once the Vatican’s idea of sin empties out most of that continent.

… their common concern for the situation in Iraq and particularly the precarious state of Christian communities there and elsewhere in the region.

Of course. And who gives a shit about all those innocent non-Christian people who are dying in large numbers in Iraq? Obviously not the Pope and certainly not George. Shame on George by the way. He almost offended the Saoudi’s (where preaching Christianity is punishable by death by the way), but I’m sure George will call his friends in the Saoudi royal family to tell them he did not mean them and they are cool. Word.

“I come as a friend, a preacher of the Gospel and one with great respect for this vast pluralistic society,” the pontiff said, adding, “Democracy can only flourish, as your founding fathers realized, when political leaders and those whom they represent are guided by truth.”

Truth? There is no God. How’s that for truth? Church and State should be completely seperate. That’s another truth. Oh wait, they didn’t mean that kind of thruth, did they? Oh, and by the way; I’m no expert on American history, but as I understand it, the founding fathers were in favor of a secular state. I could be wrong though.

“Here in America you’ll find a nation that welcomes the role of faith in the public square,” the president said. “When our founders declared our nation’s independence, they rested their case on an appeal to the ‘laws of nature, and of nature’s God.’ We believe in religious liberty. We also believe that a love for freedom and a common moral law are written into every human heart, and that these constitute the firm foundation on which any successful free society must be built.”

Religious liberty. Of course, according to George’s dad, that means that atheists have no religion, so they fall in a different category; that of not even being citizens. Kinda like the dhimmi system the Islam uses, but with a difference. But George probably totally disagrees with his dad. Also, what puzzels me is the ‘common moral law are written into every human heart’. I don’t get that. I’m a sinner. One of the most heard arguments from Christians against atheists is that we lack moral because that appearantly can only come from believing in an invisible man who wrote a book or two over two thousand years ago. Did George just claim we do have morals? Damn, I’m memorizing that one the next time someone drops the ‘moral’ bomb on my head.

Well, I couldn’t quote-mine anything else to get worked up about from the article on the New York Times website… Hey, there is nothing wrong with quote-mining. Christians quote-mine the Bible all the time.

Oh, and happy birthday Pope Benny. May you live for many more years, do and say stupid things so I may write sarcastic blogs about you and all those that take you a liiiittle bit too serious.

I think Intelligent Design needs to change its name. Back in the day, when the Christian shit-for-brains still called it Creationism, it had a bad name amongst those who do have a brain and labeling it ‘Intelligent Design’ didn’t help. I think these idiots really hoped ‘Expelled’ (no I’m not linking to it, you know where to find it on the web) would keep the ball rolling, but the mainstream media - to my knowledge - butchered it. I do like the phrase “Intelligence not allowed” on the posters by the way, because it is the motto of religion in general. Nice subtle touch guys!

Most arguments I’ve read from ID nutters are along the lines of ‘evolution isn’t science’ and then they start debunking science entirely. That cracks me up, seriously. You say science is a scam, type it on a computer and post it on the internet. Guess what made all that possible, asswipe… Yes; science. Damn, you’re a dumbass. It must hurt physically to be that stupid. Please tell me if that assumption is true in the comments.

But seriously, most IDers don’t even explain their viewpoints, they try to kick down science hard enough so their option becomes viable. This way they don’t have to prove ID is true (they will not want to because it’s bullshit and they know it), so the strategy is to make it look better then science. But this tactic only shows intelligent people what ID is; it’s a soap bubble that should have burst a very long time ago. It’s a horse shot down by science a long time ago with a single shot between the eyes to put it out of its (and our) misery. But the Christian fundy’s put the horse back on it’s feet, and even though it isn’t breathing anymore, they are using all of their strength to keep it upright and make it appear alive, shouting “See? It’s fine! It’s just a flesh wound!”

I’m intelligent enough to know they are going to keep the horse upright, even when it’s starting to smell and rot. We’re not going to talk them out of it, because they’ll probably feel they have nothing to live for once their religion is gone. So they’ll keep clinging on to idea that God made the world in six days until their very last breath. Don’t hate them; pity them (making fun of them is allowed though, for the laughs).

I propose this; perhaps they (the IDers) should be more honest and call it ‘Creative Design’. It’s a name that is a combination of Creationism and Intelligent Design (so recognizable to all as the new packaging for old crap), it no longer has the word ‘Intelligent’ in it (it’s a misleading word in the context of ID), and it still has a very positive ring to it - being creative is cool, right? Right?